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literary devices
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Term | Definition |
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Exposition | The first stage of a typical story plot |
Rising Action | The part of the plot that begins that begins to occur as soon as the conflict is announced |
Climax | point of greatest emotion, intensity, and suspense in the plot of a narritive |
Falling Action | turning point that leads to the resolution |
Resolution | The conclusion to a story that reveals the solution to the conflict |
Protagonist | the main character |
Antagonist | villain in the story |
simile | a comparison of two things using the words like or as |
metaphor | A comparison of two things without the words like or as |
personification | giving human qualities to a non human thing |
omomatopoeia | words that represent sounds |
Hyperbole | exaggerated statements not to be taken literally |
Alliteration | when you use the same consinant sound at the beginning of words |
Imagery | Puts a picture in a readers mind by using words |